September is here! And also your Monday industry catch-up 📰Crypto & Blockchain Update: August 26 - September 1📈Market Highlights- With the start of Septembear, Bitcoin has declined 8.7% in past 7 days now at $58,216, while Ethereum is down 9.66% at $2,473- Last weeks top 3 altcoin gainers were HNT (16.83%), TRX (0.88%), and XMR (1.53%) while 3 losers were WIF (24.2%), SEI (23.66%) and FLOKI (23.66%)- Bitcoin whales are increasingly active lately as the number of wallets with 100+ BTC hit a 17-month high- ETH whales seem to be selling ETH, with one depositing $18M worth of ETH to Binance exchange- Solana monthly active wallets hits new ATH- BlackRock’s Spot Bitcoin ETF sees first losses in 4 months🎮Blockchain Tech & Gaming- Ethereum gaming network Geist is members-only to prevent industrial farming- Hamster Kombat launch and airdrop on TON set for September 26th- Cardano’s “Chang” hard fork goes live, turning ADA into a governance token- TON blockchain back online after 2 outages in 2 days, which stopped all transactions- Apple’s NFC solution sets up tap-to-pay crypto solution launch- Gameplay Galaxy secured its $24M in seed funding- Hamster Kombat token HMSTR listing on Bitget boosts hype for projects within TON ecosystem- Esports team Complexity will build a fan app on Sonic in a sponsorship deal- Rising Telegram game Rocky Rabbit plans to drop its own token on September 23rd on TON📃Regulatory Updates- OpenSea receives Wells notice from SEC claiming NFTs as unregistered securities- Telegram CEO Pavel Durov indicted in France and released on $5M bail payment- Chinese Yuan will be linked to new stablecoin for BRICS- Elon Musk’s DOGE insider trading case dismissed- SEC charges ABRA for selling unregistered crypto asset securities💰Investments & Partnerships- VCs remain positive on crypto as ParaFi raises $120M to invest in startups- Klumi Ventures and Fuze partner for web3 innovation in UAE- Former Coinbase and Square employees team up to change stablecoins with Bridge raising $58M- Alchemy acquired Bware, a blockchain infrastructure provider, to expand into Europe🛡️Cybersecurity- ImmuneFi reports crypto hackers have stolen over $1.2B in 2024- Discord channels of 5 crypto companies hacked within the same week- Kylian Mbappe X account was hacked, promoting a $460M PumpFun scam- WazirX sets aside $12M to recover stolen crypto and cover legal costs🗞️Miscellaneous- Bitcoin ATM growth increases in Australia, jumping from 73 in 2022 to 1,162 in 2024- Native BTC staking is coming to Bitcoin L2 networks, states Babylon- Bitcoin miners see worst revenues in 11 months as mining difficulty increases- X now banned in Brazil, use of a VPN fined- Cyber Capital founder and CIO criticizes Ethereum L2 solutions being centralized as single servers often are responsible for running platform’s operations***🆕Product UpdatesPolygon network now supported on Swapin!- SwapinPay & SwapinGet: Off-ramp USDC & USDT via Polygon- SwapinBuy: Buy USDT via Polygon network- SwapinCollect & SwapinWidget: USDC & USDT on Polygon are now available for your customers, partners, and users***Events in September that Swapin is attending:1) AWSummit Affiliates&Creators Conference📅 September 12-15, 2024📍 Bucharest, Romania2) SBC Summit📅 September 24-26, 2024📍 Lisbon, Portugal**Have a successful new week and month ahead!🤝